About JINN
Justice In Nigeria Now! (JINN) is a San Francisco-based organization working in solidarity with communities in Nigeria and allies in the U.S. to hold multinational corporations accountable for their operations in Nigeria to act in a manner that respects human rights, protects the environment, and enhances community livelihood.
JINN’s Goals:
- To seek improvements in the operating practices of the extractive industry in Nigeria that result in better conditions for people and the environment.
- To call for accountability and transparency regarding industry practices in Nigeria, such as full public disclosure regarding the extent of the relationship with military and police forces - including all payments, housing and transportation provided.
- To build public awareness regarding oil company practices that violate human rights and destroy the environment including the devastating practice of gas flaring.
- To support and strengthen organized elements of Nigerian civil society.
- To work in solidarity with Nigerian civil society groups who are seeking job training and real jobs, environmental clean up, schooling, staffed health clinics, clean water and electricity
- To connect Nigerian groups in alliance with other organized communities around the world who are adversely affected by extractive industry practices.
JINN's media campaign
Current Campaigns:
- Say no to further U.S. military support to Nigeria: In August 2009, Secretary Hillary Clinton, while visiting Nigeria, promised to explore further military support to Nigeria to address the crisis in the Niger Delta. JINN started a letter writing campaign to call on the State Department and the Obama Administration to support peaceful, diplomatic negotiations, not military support. Sign the letter
- U.S City Resolutions: Starting in September 2009, JINN began a campaign to get a series of U.S. cities to vote on local resolutions that would call on the State Department to support diplomatic negotiations in the Niger Delta as well as call on the U.S. Senate and House to support new bills that would require companies in the extractive industry - including oil companies to disclose payments made to foreign governments to do business. The bill is called the Energy Security Through Transparency Act. Since October, JINN has successfully worked with the Oakland, CA; the Berkeley CA and the Richmond, CA city councils to pass resolutions in support of peaceful negotiations and corporate transparency in the Niger Delta. In 2010, JINN will continue to expand this effort.
- ChevWrong.org - Brings attention to Chevron’s hypocritical advertising by parodying its logo and Human Energy tagline. This letter action demands that Chevron stop paying the Nigerian military as its private security, provide jobs and clean up. The ChevWrong campaign coordinates with ongoing Chevron shareholder activism. Additionally JINN belongs to a coalition of groups committed to expose Chevron’s hypocrisy through the True Cost of Chevron campaign and Alternative Annual Repor
- Community Support - Connecting and supporting local communities in the Niger Delta that are seeking solutions to the problems caused by extractive industries in Nigeria.
